involuntary-bankruptcy
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-940 | Timothy L. Blixseth v. Montana Department of Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-03 | Denied | Amici (1) | bankruptcy-law circuit-split congressional-power eleventh-amendment involuntary-bankruptcy sovereign-immunity | Whether the Eleventh Amendment prevents Congress from authorizing citizens to collect damages against states that force citizens into bankruptcy with … |
| 23-211 | Joseph G. Wortley v. James Juranitch, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | bad-faith bad-faith-filing bankruptcy bankruptcy-petition business-divorce closely-held-business closely-held-company deadlock insider-filing involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition | Whether an insider's involuntary bankruptcy petition against his closely-held business for the express purpose of "breaking a deadlock" or to get a "b… |
| 20-1177 | National Medical Imaging, LLC, et al. v. U.S. Bank, N.A., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | bad-faith bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-petition compensatory-damages involuntary-bankruptcy jury-trial punitive-damages seventh-amendment | Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code governs involuntary bankruptcy cases. In an involuntary bankruptcy case it is the creditors, not the debtors, who s… |
| 20-396 | Sheri Speer v. Michael Tieger, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | abstention abstention-doctrine abuse-of-process bankruptcy-code circuit-split civil-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy legal-precedent subject-matter-jurisdiction | Involuntary bankruptcies are rare - as they should be. They are a last resort after all state remedies have been exhausted, and are not a tool to be u… | |
| 19-1369 | TRUMPF, Inc. v. CSI Worldwide, Inc. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 11-usc-303 bankruptcy-law-11-usc-303 bankruptcy-standing congress-authority congressional-authority court-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy judicial-estoppel judicial-overreach judicial-usurpation jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirements separation-of-powers standing standing-requirements | Whether it is unconstitutional and impermissible for a court to usurp Congress' authority by reducing the strict standing and jurisdictional requireme… |
| 19-137 | Vibe Micro, Inc. v. SIG Capital, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-29 | Denied | bankruptcy-law bankruptcy-statute circuit-split damages federal-procedure involuntary-bankruptcy involuntary-petition non-debtor non-debtor-relief standing statutory-interpretation | A circuit split currently exists over the scope of 11 U.S.C. § 303(i), which provides remedies for the improper filing of an involuntary bankruptcy pe… |